Finland

2017

Commemorative coin

The Finnish nature

Official Journal of the European Union

The inner part of the coin has a design forming a cartographic likeness of the moon seen from Harmaja, Finland. On the top of the moon there is a crow sitting on a branch. The year of issuance ‘2017’ is placed at the center bottom. At the center left is the indication of the issuing country ‘FI’. The mint mark is placed center right. The coin’s outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag.

Additional information

The coin dedicated to Finnish nature was designed after a photo taken by Kari Auvinen in Harmaja. It shows a black and grey hooded crow sitting on a bare bog birch. This bird, which reacts flexibly to new situations, is meant to symbolise the modern Finnish character. Behind him and the birch branches shines the cartographically depicted - but in negative brightness values - full moon. Half hidden by the crow's belly is the Mare Tranquillitatis, where the crew of Apollo 11 carried out the first moon landing in 1969. The dark spot on the left of the coin is the lunar crater Copernicus.

Edge lettering

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